Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Museum Of Imaginary Musical Instruments
L’Autre Monde - 1656

Museum Of Imaginary Musical Instruments

Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson curate this wondrous website collecting instruments from fiction and speculative projects. To propose the engine of any sensory experience in the abstract requires a good deal of thought and no little experience around the edges of that given sense. To imagine sounds as yet unheard, to devise the means of their making is a genuine act of sensory engagement and a splendid feat of imagining. There are some hugely engaging ideas here and the site is a joy to spend time with.

Museum Of Imaginary Musical Instruments
"At the turn of the century an odour organ was developed and smell recitals given in the Central Hall, London. the idea was that the smells would influence the emotions of the audience."
- Van Toller & Dodd, 1988, Perfumery : The Psychology And Biology Of Fragrance